The Matrix took Oscars for the sound, visual effects and editing, and Sleepy Hollow for art direction.
For those still too sleepy to grasp the show's theme of simultaneously serving God and Mammon, there was more to come.
But for the other 10 months of the year, the trickle of diners who come to feast on fantastically fresh seafood reflects the general pace of life in the Alentejo: sleepy, bordering on comatose.
Seasoned backpackers who visited Thailand 30 years ago might find the pace familiar: it's pleasingly slow and sleepy, with simple stripped-back bamboo beach huts for just $7 a night, and three hours of electricity daily.
Ryanair (ryanair.com) flies from Stansted to Ancona from £45 return October high: 19C Tucked away in a sleepy Provençal village, La Maison de Blauzac is an 18th-century house with a pretty garden and a pool.
Carlyle's genius is that he is not only totally convincing when he does this (even though his character had previously exuded all the violent tendencies of a sleepy birthday kitten), but also that, after the scene has finished, he does not do the obvious thing and continue tiresomely exuding 'quiet menace' for the rest of the movie.
It is a gigantic mirror-clad middle finger aimed at the region; indeed, it's hard to imagine a more obnoxious gesture to inflict on a sleepy spa town.
Paracetamol overdoses don't make people feel sleepy and they may feel well for 24 hours – enough time to regret taking too many tablets in the first place.
The broadcast set a sleepy tone as awards were doled out to what has become a redundant stable of winners: Jim Parsons won his fourth Emmy for best actor in a comedy series for The Big Bang Theory, Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her third consecutive lead comedy actress award for Veep, and The Amazing Race won best reality-competition program for the tenth time.
Hotels – and indeed, tourists – are even rarer in the sunny, sleepy islands beyond Jaffna, reached by causeway and free ferry, but the intrepid traveller will find a ready welcome from people cut off from the west for a generation.
Labaun Bajo is a sleepy Indonesian fishing village on the tip of Flores, which hosts some of the best unspoilt diving in Indonesia.
